Anselm Kiefer: The Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation Aquires Five Works of the Artist for the Bayeric State Memberships

21 June 2017–29 December 2020

Exhibition Overview

The Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation has acquired five Anselm Kiefers works in close cooperation with the Bavarian State Painting Collections. With the acquisitions a milestone in the collection expansion is set. Anselm Kiefer, who was born in Donaueschingen on March 8, 1945, broke his silence on the German past in the Third Reich, and at the same time found an invaluable language for the global networking of human civilization. He takes up ancient Christian, Kabbalistic or Far Eastern traditions, deals with the great mythical, religious and poetic writings of the world and links them with the current world of experience. In the Pinakothek der Moderne, the monumental painting "The Sand from the Urns" (2009), the two wall paintings "OCCUPATIONS" (1969/2011) on lead, as well as the two showcases "The 12 Tribes" (2010) and "Morgenthau" (2016), a further highlight in the collection profile. Through the acquisition of the five works by Anselm Kiefers, the few works by the artist - three photographs and the painting "Nero malt" (1974), the latter from the collection of the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds (former collection Prince Franz of Bavaria) are expanded into an exemplary complex , This is in the context of extensive workgroups and / or artists' rooms of other influential artists, especially Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Wolfgang Laib, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer and Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Andy Warhol.

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